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- Two days is or are? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is if you're treating the two days as a single length of time; are if you're treating them as multiple lengths of time
- Does the term within 7 days mean include the 7th day?
There's also the perennial question of whether the last day ends on the multiple of 24 hours from the time when the deadline was given, if it means midnight of that day, or closing time of that day, or what And does "7 days" mean 7 calendar days, or 7 business days? Etc
- What does days mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The fourth example is the correct interpretation of day's, but with two things to keep in mind First, in your conclusion you flipped the words around incorrectly *; the journey "belongs to" the day, not the other way around You could re-write the sentence as: The house is a journey of a full day from here Second, while the journey is "of a day," this does not necessarily mean the day "owns
- Gone are the days when . . . Is this expression often used?
Gone are the days when a school or institution could count on being able to offer a standard curriculum and traditional programs to a steady stream of students and their parents Gone too are the days when communication was top-down Gone are the days of local entertainers coming to play or perform free
- adverbs - The variations of in for the last few days - English Language . . .
This same question was recently asked by you on English Language Learners wasn't it? I believe the answer there was that none of them are correct because all of them should say, "the Internet" Once that is fixed, then the only viable sentences are the ones that use "for the last few days", "in the last few days" and "in a few days" Although the meaning of the last one is different
- Vacation days or days off - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In most organizations, vacation days are usable at the employee's discretion, up to a certain yearly limit Days off is a more informal phrase that includes a variety of kinds of paid-not-to-work days, including sick leave, maternal paternal leave, floating holidays, national holidays, etc Vacation days are a subset of days off
- Origin and usage of day of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
There is an expression I have heard used many times in conversational U S English but cannot recall ever seeing in writing: day of as an adverb, omitting the object of the preposition Examples:
- What is a gender-neutral alternative to the expression man-days?
Man days does automatically make people think of the male first, so we do need something else, but it needs to clearly mean number of actual days of effort so people don't misinterpret as 'time to delivery'
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